T. Cross et Rb. Slater, THE SORRY NUMBER OF ACADEMIC CHAIRS NAMED FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, The Journal of blacks in higher education, (13), 1996, pp. 99-103
ln the nation's 50 most prestigious universities and liberal arts coll
eges, there are about 5,000 endowed chairs. About 100 of them are held
by African-American scholars. But only a handful of African Americans
have an endowed chair named in their honor.